“For the bar mitzvah of his only grandson, he decided he wanted to go all out, to give him the bar mitzvah he never had”
“Ask to borrow money? I would never be a debtor to anyone, not even for a few grush” Yehudah Steingot (name changed) is my father’s cousin. Like my father, he was born in Yerushalayim in 1929, and recently, at the age of 91, he made his first trip to chutz l’Aretz to attend the
“Larry, what awaits you is a perpetual and enduring afterlife in the Central Park of the Next World”
I went in with her as she identified her mother. Her sobs filled the room
“For 50 years I looked for ways to pay back Mrs. Greenbaum. Finally Hashem has sent me my opportunity”
The operative phrase “away from home” haunts me. I hope they cannot see through me
